NBC has added one other new comedy collection for the 2025-26 season, handing a collection order to Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading pilot Stumble, headlined by Jenn Lyon. The choice comes days earlier than the choices on the solid have been set to run out on the finish of this week.
That is the second of three comedy pilots NBC has ordered thus far in 2025 to attain a collection pickup, becoming a member of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe and govt produced by Tina Fey, which was ordered to collection in Could. There isn’t a choice but on the third pilot, an untitled neighborhood middle comedy from the Rutherford Falls trio of Sierra Teller Ornelas, Jackie Kaliiaa and Bobby Wilson, which was the final of the three to get a pilot order and the final to be delivered.
It has been exhausting to get a superb learn on the neighborhood middle pilot, which has been flying largely below the radar not like Stumble, which, as Deadline reported, sailed by way of inside screenings and testing with excessive marks, organising a collection pickup.
NBC is but to announce scheduling for its new comedy collection with two half-hour holes remaining on the autumn schedule come November, one behind St. Denis Medical on Monday and one behind Pleased’s Place on Friday.
With its mockumentary fashion, Stumble would match proper in behind the equally shot medical comedy St. Denis Medical by way of, as Deadline reported final month, NBCUnivetrsal additionally had been contemplating a run on NBC og Peacock’s The Paper, a successor to mocumentary-style comedy staple The Workplace. Additionally ready within the wings is The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.
Written by veteran comedy showrunners Liz and Jeff Astrof within the sibling duo’s first team-up to create a collection collectively, Stumble facilities on Courteney Potter (Jenn Lyon) who is set to rally her newly recruited junior school cheer squad to win her record-breaking fifteenth championship and enhance their lives alongside the way in which.
Along with Lyon, who received the function in a aggressive scenario with a number of big-name actresses vying for it, the primary solid contains Taran Killam, Ryan Pinkston, Jarrett Austin Brown, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis, Taylor Dunbar and Georgie Murphy. Kristin Chenoweth, who visitor starred within the pilot, can be recurring.
Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof govt produce alongside cheerleading coach Monica Aldama, identified for her look on the Netflix docuseries Cheer, and producer Dana Honor by way of her Defining Eve Productions. Jeff Blitz directs and govt produces the pilot solely. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, is the studio.
